Faces of Austin Seminary
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During the Fall semester, Zbinden Professor Bobbi Kay Jones’s work commute was just shy of 4000 miles.
During the Fall semester, Zbinden Professor Bobbi Kay Jones’s work commute was just shy of 4000 miles.
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“I realized I did not want to be a pastor.” During her clinical pastoral education (CPE) residency at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, Aquanetta Hicks (MDiv’08) had an overwhelming sense that she was not called to be a pastor. Unfortunately, that left her stumped about what she wanted to do with her seminary degree. After all, people who attended seminary did so to become pastors and work in a church, or at least that’s what she thought. Ultimately one thing became absolutely clear, “I feel like I was really created to be a chaplain. It was more than just a profession to me.”
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Since high school, The Reverend Jessie Light-Wells (MDiv’17) knew her journey would eventually lead to seminary. “I felt like I could do my best work in the church.”
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“We don’t rise to the occasion; we fall back on our training.” This was one of the many lessons that Reverend Treighton (Trey) Haddon (MDiv’17) remembers from serving with the United States Marine Corps.
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Austin Seminary student James Talarico’s first step on the journey from a nine-year-old protesting in favor of hate-crimes legislation in front of the Governor’s Mansion to being named one of the ten best Legislators in Texas began in a Presbyterian church.
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Fran Tilton Shelton (MDiv’93, DMin’07) wrote her first book, No Winter Lasts Forever, following the death of her husband, Bob, longtime (1971-2002) Austin Seminary professor, dean, and president. As a Presbyterian minister, her path to this memoir was both personal and professional.